On the loss to Detroit:
“At the end of the day, we didn’t get the result that we want. Let’s just say we haven’t been playing our best hockey and sometimes you say at the end of losing streaks and at the end of winning streaks sometimes you’re losing games you shouldn’t, and sometimes you’re winning games you shouldn’t, as well. That was probably our best 60 minutes in a long time. Now we’ve got to forget about the last 10 seconds. We’ve got a game tomorrow, and probably, especially in a shortened season we won’t have time to sit here and talk about ‘what-ifs’.”
On the team’s performance in the offensive zone:
“If you look at their blue paint, we were there every shift or a lot of our shifts, and for us to be successful, that’s a staple of our game. We didn’t have one or two guys doing it. We had a lot of guys doing it. From an offensive standpoint, I think the biggest difference for us [was that] we had some Grade-A scoring chances. Howard had a pretty good game.”
On whether Sunday’s loss was “symbolic,” considering the way the season has started:
“I don’t know. Like I said, this was the first time we lose a game and we had a good opportunity to win it. We lose a game, and we had a good opportunity to win it. A lot of the games that we’ve lost this year, we haven’t been in it from the start, and it’s hard to play that way [in] this league. Like I’ve said, we’ve got to take how we played and apply it to our next game. I think if you continue to play like we did tonight, you’ll start to see more wins than losses.”
EPIC FAIL
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Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com) Reply:
February 10th, 2013 at 2:05 pm
@mash-ola, Quick, yes. The Kings, no. The team played really well. Power Play sucked yet again but overall a vast improvement. The difference was a hot Jimmy Howard. No failure in that. He was on his game stopping 45 shots.
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puck73 Reply:
February 10th, 2013 at 2:09 pm
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com), You are right in what you just posted. That being said, its frustrating that all these goalies seem to play like the Cup is at stake vs The Kings, and then bend over vs The Ducks.
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Duncanz Reply:
February 10th, 2013 at 2:31 pm
@puck73, That’s one perception.
Or maybe the Ducks are just more up for the season than our team.
mrbrett7 Reply:
February 11th, 2013 at 6:33 am
@puck73, That’s what happens when your the defending champions. You’re going to get everyone’s best game every time out there.
mash-ola Reply:
February 10th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com), Thanks, Paul. See below. I accidentally hit Submit Comment before I could clarify my declaration. Yes they played a GREAT game, but bad breaks and NO OFFENSIVE FINISH did them in, in my opinion. But yes, a hot goalie and a power play that refuses to benefit the Kings did them in.
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mash-ola Reply:
February 10th, 2013 at 2:09 pm
@mash-ola, If they play this way all the time, they win 75% of the time. Quick let in a bad goal at the wrong time, but the offense HAS to start finishing. Granted Jimmy Howard had a helluva game, but c’mon. If you know that a hot goalie is moving post-to-post well down low, shoot high.
They owned the zone in this game, had more shots and more chances. But like the game in Nashville, taking more shots isn’t always what gets you the win. Gotta bury those chances.
Since F@CK!#G KTLK’s interrupted the online stream with an infomercial with two minutes left in the game, I was forced to listen to Detroit’s radio broadcast (What is it with KTLK? They do the same thing during Kings Talk as well…). The Detroit radio guys Ken Kal and Paul Woods said that the Wings stole the game and that the Kings are the best team they’ve seen this year. It’s of little consolation, but the Kings need this kind of effort all the time, less the untimely late goals allowed and FINISHING THEIR OFFENSIVE CHANCES.
The Stanley Cup run seems like a decade ago lately the way the Kings have been playing…
Very disappointed.
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At least we seem to win the worst goal scoring team in the league.
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Forum Gold Reply:
February 10th, 2013 at 2:09 pm
@goldielocks, And we are very consistent. GO KINGS GO!!!
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Just upsetting that we really havent improved over last years regular season play…in fact we have gone backwards I believe. I love my Kings but what is it gonna take here? A big trade or what! Step it up! I know we are down on defense but C’mon! Just really frustrated!
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real simple win a freakin faceoff….!!!
Unbelievable…
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